Yuliang (Oliver) Yao
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Office Information
Office: 458 RBC
Phone: 610-758-6726
Fax: 610-758-6941

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Courses Taught
  • Managing Information (MBA Core Course)
  • Electronic Business Systems and Applications (Elective, both at MBA and Undergraduate Levels)

 

Yuliang (Oliver) Yao, Ph.D. holds the Scott Hartz '68 Professorship.


Yuliang "Oliver" Yao is an assistant professor at College of Business & Economics of Lehigh University. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, an M.B.A from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in supply chain management from University of Maryland. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Markets, Supply Chain Management Review, Transportation Journal, Transport Economics and Policy, International Journal of Electronic Business Research, and conference proceedings such as International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST).

Research Interests

  • inter-organizational information systems
  • VMI and CPFR
  • electronic commerce
  • organizational learning in supply chains
  • incentive mechanism in supply chain collaborations
  • empirical analysis: econometrics and survey based

Selected Publications

  • Yuliang Yao, Martin Dresner, and Jonathan Palmer, “Private Network EDI vs. the Internet Electronic Markets:  A Direct Comparison of Fulfillment Performance,” Forthcoming, Management Science.
  • Yuliang Yao, Jonathan Palmer and Martin Dresner, “An Interorganizational Perspective on the Use of Electronic Supply Chains,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 43(3), 2007, pp. 884-896.
  • Joseph Bailey, Samer Faraj, and Yuliang Yao, “The Road More Traveled: Web Traffic and Price Competition in Internet Retailing” Electronic Markets, Vol. 17 (1), 2007, pp. 56-67.
  • Yuliang Yao, Philip Evers, and Martin Dresner, “Supply Chain Integration in Vendor-Managed Inventory,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 43 (2), 2007, pp. 663-674.

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